Lead Nurse for Palatine Treatment Ward

7 days ago


Manchester, United Kingdom The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced nurse to take on the role of Lead Nurse for the Palatine Treatment Ward at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. As a senior nursing professional, you will play a key role in the future development of our Haematology and TYA service.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide senior professional leadership and management to the Palatine Treatment Ward, ensuring the delivery of high-quality service to haematology/teenage and young adult cancer patients within the inpatient setting.
  • Take the lead in the planning, co-ordination and implementation of nursing service developments in close collaboration with the Head of Directorate and Clinical Director.
  • Work with the Directorate Leads to ensure the delivery of balanced budgets, workforce plans and a service that is flexible to meet the current and future nursing trends and patient needs.
  • Be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of effective and high-quality patient care and experience across the inpatient haematology and TYA services, demonstrating both excellent leadership and management skills at all times.
  • Work clinically one day a week alongside the nursing teams and participate in the Trust on-call Duty Manager Rota.
Leadership and Governance
  • Work collaboratively with Directorate Quality Team, Divisional Governance team and Quality & Standards team and lead on complex investigations, resolutions and action planning.
  • Undertake root cause analysis and develop action plans, ensuring this leads to sustainable changes in improved practice.
  • Support patients and staff in the handling of complaints and work to ensure early and satisfactory resolution of concerns.
  • Take all reasonable action to address problems, concerns and complaints as near to 'source' as possible, but also understand when to escalate.
  • Be responsible for implementing effective risk assessment and management within own clinical areas or teams working closely with the divisional quality and governance team.
  • Be responsible for ensuring regulatory standards pertaining to clinical areas are consistently achieved (e.g. CQUINS/CQC/JACIE).
Planning and Organising
  • Work in collaboration with the clinical teams daily, monitoring and actioning decisions in relation to clinical areas, ensuring nursing skill mix in relation to activity and acuity.
  • Manage and report any risk issues to the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse in a timely manner.
  • Supervise the assessment, planning, implementation, provision and evaluation of patient care, ensuring that nursing and corporate standards are implemented, maintained, monitored and improved upon where necessary.
Responsibilities for Physical and/or Financial Resources
  • Ensure safe and efficient use of equipment, resources and consumables.
  • Manage pay and non-pay resources efficiently and effectively, and in accordance with corporate standards, procedures, policies and objectives.
  • Be responsible and accountable for ensuring that the environment in which care and service are delivered are fit for purpose, clean and maintained and meet relevant national cleaning and other performance standards.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation
  • Participate with service/specialty teams in the development of policy, processes and business plans at Directorate/Service level.
  • Represent and provide nursing expertise and advice to business and operational discussions, meetings and forums.
  • Ensure that all staff practice in accordance with statutory and corporate policies.
  • Be aware of, comment on and/or actively participate in changes on policies, procedures or service developments.
  • Ensure self and others practice is in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code of Conduct.
  • As an ambassador of the nursing profession, ensure self and others practice to the highest professional standards.
  • Ensure that all direct line report staff have clear and agreed performance objectives that support the delivery of the Directorate and the wider Divisional and Trust objectives.
  • Participate in skill mix review, workforce redesign and recruitment and retention strategies to develop and modernise the workforce in conjunction with the Directorate and Divisional Senior Nursing and Management team.
  • Be responsible for overseeing HR management within their areas of responsibility, including recruitment, sickness absence, training etc.
Responsibilities for Data and Information Resources
  • Provide accurate and timely records on patient care and performance IT-based systems.
  • Develop audits and analysis of working practices and trends to support improvements in performance in relation to quality and patient experience.
  • Ensure national and local quality initiatives are implemented for nursing across the Directorate.

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